The Government is expected to announce new financial supports for companies which have been negatively affected by the latest Covid-19 restrictions.

People are getting multiple booster vaccine appointments because of a glitch between the HSE's vaccination database and the IT systems used by pharmacies and GPs.

Non-Irish EU citizens living in the Republic will have to apply online for pre-travel clearance from the UK in order to cross the border on the island of Ireland, under proposed new British immigration laws.

Within two weeks of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan this summer, the Irish Refugee Council received 1,300 calls from members of the Irish Afghan community hoping to bring relatives here.

Almost four months after the Taliban returned to power, Afghanistan is in the grip of a humanitarian crisis.

Limerick's dominance of the hurling championship has been reflected with a record 12 players included in the 2021 PWC All-Star Team of the Year, while Cork become the first All-Ireland finalists not to claim a single award.

EU mobile phone users will continue to enjoy free roaming across Europe for mobile phone calls and web surfing until 2032.

As he takes over as German chancellor, Olaf Scholz already has a full in-tray and will have to hit the ground running.

China's drug authority has granted emergency approval for the country's first specialised treatment against Covid-19, found in clinical trials to significantly reduce hospitalisations and deaths among high-risk patients.

Britain's Health Secretary has said he is "not quite sure" why Allegra Stratton quit her role as a Downing Street spokeswoman after a leaked video showed her and other senior aides joking about a "fictional" lockdown party that the British Prime Mini...

New Zealand plans to ban young people from ever buying cigarettes in their lifetime in one of the world's toughest crackdowns on the tobacco industry, arguing that other efforts to extinguish smoking were taking too long.

A father and son have been arrested on charges of starting a huge forest fire that burned more than 200,000 acres in northern California this summer, local officials said.

Exploitation within the sex industry continued for much of the Covid-19 pandemic, with pimps and facilitators moving their exploitative practices online, according to research in a report which has been published by the Immigrant Council of Ireland.

More victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre have been found in a newly discovered mass grave in the south of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Netherlands-based International Commission for Missing Persons has said.

China warned Western nations that they would "pay the price" for a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

Donald Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows could become the third person to face a criminal contempt charge for refusing to cooperate with with an investigation into the deadly attack on the US Capitol.

The Department of Health has confirmed 4,152 new cases of Covid-19. There are 543 people in hospital who have tested positive for the virus, up 38 since yesterday. Of these 118 are in ICU, up one.

One hundred people arriving in Dublin Airport have been referred to gardaí for failing to present a valid PCR or antigen test.

Work-from-home guidance will return, vaccine passports will become mandatory in nightclubs and large venues and mask rules will be extended to combat the Omicron variant as Boris Johnson announced a move to "Plan B" to tackle coronavirus.

Allegra Stratton has resigned as an adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson after footage emerged of her joking about a Christmas party at Downing Street during lockdown last year.